Who is John Nash?
John Forbes Nash, Jr., the son of a World War I veteran who was an electrical engineer and a schoolteacher, was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in the United States in 1928. John Nash is revered as a mathematical genius that has made significant contributions to the fields of mathematics and economics. He also had a personal struggle with schizophrenia which was depicted in the award-winning Hollywood film A Beautiful Mind. As a child, John Nash was eager for knowledge. To quell his curiosity, he read encyclopedias and other educational books. He also performed his own electrical and chemistry experiments in his room. Nash enjoyed being alone to do his experiments and in return, was rejected by his classmates. He dismissed their ridicule as mental inferiority and continued to independently learn. After high school, John Nash attended college at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which is now Carnegie Mellon University, as a chemical engineering major that eventually changed to math
